Re: Ishmael Reed: "What Progressives Don’t Understand About Obama" Keeping Cool & Caring" NYT

[Michael F]

I've been a reader of Pynchon for 10 years, and have read only a bit
of academic criticism and what I find interesting on this list serve.
I need some help, where does Pynchon proclaim himself a prophet for
Left-Wing rights-based politics or progressivism?  Or even radical
anarchism?  Personally, I eschew both Modern Western "right" and
"left" wing thought(not in a revolutionary fashion), but I just don't
understand how Pynchon's writings propagate a contemporary political
view.  In all sincerity, I'm not trying to be antagonistic, but I
think the author of Pynchon's writings would laugh and/or shudder at
the political philosophy or lack of that all of our elected officials
espouse, especially Obama's pseudo-prophetic promises of immentization
of the eschaton and the idiot wind of "W".  McCarthy and Pynchon avoid
contemporary academia and media for a reason, not because they are
Underground Men or Secret Agents, like so many of us unfortunately
need them to be or hope them to be.

Mike

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Alex Colter <recoignishon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I would like to comment to a larger extent at a later time,
> for now I will post what may be Gore Vidal's rebuttal....
> entitl'd "America the Great...Police State",
> http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090728_america_the_great_police_state/
> but for now, I sleep!
>